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Quote:Same thing with the old Zig tutorial villainside. I logged onto an old shelved character about a week ago to save the costume, and was quite surprised to find they were still there and everything worked normally.Originally Posted by Android_5Point9
They didn't, those zones don't just get thrown out. I'm positive the original Paragon Dance Party is still around and inaccessible, and last I heard, characters in the old Faultline are still there now. The crash site should still be there as well. I'm guessing the only reason they're not in Ouroboros is because those badges are still obtainable, unlike Dark Astoria and Galaxy City. -
Not when we're sooo close to having full werewolf characters! Still a bit bewildered as to why they went with a coyote travel power and not a wolf-form, but... ah well.
The sfx are the only things that bugs me, mainly the Umbra Beast's Yawn of Doom. Get that thing some caffeinated ghost dog snacks or something. -
Quote:Nope, saw the whole character arc and I still loathe the screeching harpy that is Donna Noble.Originally Posted by SuperOz
New companions are like new Doctors; they get horribly criticised at first and then people can't live without them. ...
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Quote:Back in the day it was fairly common for most adults to shorten the name to just Ninja Turtles. Kind of like how a lot of older non-gamer folk used to use Nintendo as a catch-all for anything related to video games, or the phenomena of anyone who'd say Poh-kee-man.Originally Posted by Aett_Thorn
The fact that he says that he's working with "one of the original creators of ninja turtles" makes me worried, too. Because 1) They're TMNT, not just "ninja turtles"... That he doesn't understand the difference makes me extremely worried.
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Quote:I thought about mentioning M, great movie. Creepy at times, yeah, and there's the whole child murderer thing, but I consider it more a suspense/thriller/crime drama than horror. *shrug*Originally Posted by Electric-Knight
I'm curious if you would enjoy "M". Black and white, from 1931 (which is absolutely amazing, as this movie is timeless... yet also interesting to come out of Pre-WWI Germany) starring Peter Lorre. It is subtitled, as it was done in German.
I really enjoyed that movie. I recall it being creepy and suspenseful, but zero gore... Although, it is about a child murderer.
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Quote:Which is also the movie where Rob "House of a Thousand Corpses" Zombie was so disturbed by the ending that he walked out.Originally Posted by Father Xmas
Oh well, that eliminates Audition.
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By excessive gore, do you mean, well, any? Are you looking for something you could see on cable TV? 'Cause some of the movies mentioned here tip the scales a good bit on the side of gruesome visuals. Good horror movies, just gory. Event Horizon and The Descent are out. Nightbreed is a Clive Barker movie, and gore was sorta the guy's thing, the movie has a scene were a guy cuts his own face off.
I'd say Paranormal Activity, Session 9 and The Haunting ('63 version) are all safe bets. -
I don't mind the Demon howls or the nonstop KLANGKLANGKLANG of the robots moving around, but the Umbra Beast's Yawn of Doom leaves much to be desired. >.<
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I enjoyed it, but considering some of the people involved, from Walter White to Sinestro to McNulty to the Green Goblin to the director, there's a lot of talent there. Plus I thought Gambit was pretty good, and Silver Fox showed she can actually, y'know, act AND look hot as all get out.
Quote:Rumor has it that Richard Cook was largely responsible for how John Carter was made, but he left the company before the movie was released. So Disney still released the movie to avoid an utter disaster, but they half***ed the marketing because A) those still at Disney did not like what Cook allowed for Carter, B) Avengers is right around the corner, and they're going to focus the marketing on that anyway or C) a little of both.Originally Posted by Golden Girl
One of the weirdest things about this whole disaster is that apparently the budget didn't actually go up that much - which means it wasn't the result of the stuido throwing money at it to try and save it as an altenrative to just dumping it and cutting their losses - there was actually someone at Disney who, at some point, agreed to give it a budget larger than the entire LotR trilogy
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Quote:It's somewhere under Real Life Writes the Plot on tvtropes, that they mention the, erm, first wave of NewWho Daleks were built to match Billie Piper's height. I think they then say the new models were adjusted to match Matt Smith.Originally Posted by TrueGentleman
... That only invites the question of what was wrong with the new series's previously updated design for the Daleks.
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Quote:I've read enough superhero comics in my time to have a pretty high tolerance for far-out plots. Some New Who is good quality stuff. Some New Who is plain goofy fun. And then sometimes the New Who writers relied on a little too much chemical inspiration and even I'm at a loss.Originally Posted by MortisEques
Short answer: Because it is the kind of stuff that, while being corny as hell, is still amusing and enjoyable.... at least to some of us.
Edit: I frequently roll my eyes at some of the action or dialog in the show but I enjoy every moment of it. -
Just saw Victory of the Daleks. And I figured that this scene would be goofy enough even with the context, but wow... that was some crazy "Wait... How?! WHY?!" "WHO CARES?! JUST GO WITH IT!!!" stuff right there. And I don't mean that in a good way either.
Why would the Daleks go undercover with the Allies during WW2 when the Nazis are pretty much the human embodiment of "You think like a Da-lek!"?
How can Daleks program such a human-like android when they have no concept of any emotions other than hate?
How long did it take them to re-fit the Spitfires for space travel, give them GI Joe guns, AND get them into space? About a minute and a half?
Really, why with the Power Rangers coloring?
How could getting the android to think about his fake human memories possibly override his Dalek time-to-detonate-the-bomb programming? Why would the Daleks even allow for something like this to happen? My friend and I started joking that if the Daleks were capable of setting up such a ridiculous Batman gambit in the first place, they should have compensated for the Doctor trying some oddball scheme to deactivate the bomb, have it go on a delay so the Doctor goes away, then have the android either detonate or go on a berserk rampage when the Doctor is long gone.
So the Progenitor Device needed either pure Dalek DNA or a vocal recording of the Doctor's voice to work? Why the sam**** they would do that aside, the Daleks couldn't confirm the identity of a newly regenerated Doctor until he went on a 3 minute rant about how much he hates the Daleks, right in front of them. So...the Progenitor was able to compensate for the Doctor having a different voice from what would have been known at the time the thing was made then too? -
Quote:Fixed that for you.Originally Posted by CentralNexus
...SKILL over Force/Tech/Power/etc. Don't count them out because they are essentially Natural Origin.
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Quote:I could be wrong, but I think that's more a matter of name recognition to separate the Marvel Avengers from the theoretically-more-well-known-over-there 60's Avengers. I was also just talking to a friend though who reminded me that international copyright and trademark laws are even goofier than the US laws on the same subject. In my previous post I thinking of the latter and not the former.Originally Posted by Innovator
Not in Britain, as the British Poster for the Avenger's Movie appears to imply:
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Quote:Arad's position was a double edged sword for Marvel Studios. For all the random producer crap he was able to veto, he was also responsible for having Venom shoehorned into Spider-Man 3. But then again if Raimi had his way the movie would have focused on freaking Sandman. Marvel also had a lot of their creative types as consultants on Iron Man. I know Quesada, Bendis, and Granov were involved, can't remember the others. I don't think the Marvel Comics guys had as much input in IM2 or Thor, but I'm pretty sure they've kept up the practice of advising the movie people.Originally Posted by Ape_of_wrath
This right here is DC's biggest hurdle they have for putting out any superhero movies, let alone a JLA one.
The movies that Marvel has been putting out from their own studio they have one exec producer who calls the shots (Iron man, Thor, Cap) It was Avi Arad, not sure who it is now. But he has the ability to tell anyone who thinks that it'd be neat if Thor could say things like "The Odinson doth feel pretty oh so pretty!" that they should shut up and get the hell out. even movies done by other studios (X-men, Spider-Man) they do have control to some extent to keep the executive meddling to a minimum. So far it seems that Disney has let them be on the creative side, they seem to understand "They've been making movies that pull in hundreds of millions of dollars... leave them alone and let them work" Something that the WB Exec have yet to figure out.
WB/DC never did anything like that, but I know they've restructured things a lot in the last 2 years alone. I doubt it'll come into effect until after the in-process Superman movie, but I think it was Geoff Johns who was promoted to oversee the DC characters getting adapted outside the comics.
S'funny, Marvel has the stronger live action movies, but weaker animation. DC on the other hand has the stronger animation but, save for the Nolan trilogy, weaker live action movies. It'd never happen, but it -could- be interesting if both sides came to an agreement and Marvel did DC's live action movies and DC did Marvel's animation.Quote:Originally Posted by Ape_of_wrath
Of course the arguement comes up of "What about Dark Knight, that was awesome" yeah, but Nolan is a director that has enough clout that when some jr producer comes in saying things to justify his job like "I think the Batman needs more witty one liners to make him more friendly" Nolan has the ability to go "Shut up and get out!" it wouldn't surprise me that something like is in his contracts
on a similar note, it seems DC has their animated side figured out. But in that aspect, for whatever reason they're following the same arrangement that Marvel does with its live movies. They got one person who's in charge who knows what he's doing in Bruce Timm who has creative control over the whole process. I know I've read that supposedly WB has restructed their comic movie arm to put some DC guys in charge, but that's recent and who knows how much power they actually have. And until the WB can figure that out, they're going to continue having random execs poking their nose in and we end up demands like "Superman shouldn't fly. And he needs to fight a polar bear" -
Quote:For what it's worth, there is a new comic coming out about the 60's Avengers, but it's called Steed and Mrs Peel. My guess is that by now, Marvel/Marvel Studios/Disney have the naming rights for anything that could be called The Avengers locked up six ways from Sunday.Originally Posted by Nericus
But is it a recognition issue, or a rights to the name Avengers issue?
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Mass Peach?
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Quote:You're probably right. But, consider the marketing push for the New 52 was huge, and the relaunch has, on the whole, been a financial success. And DC has gone on record stating that the reason they reset the numbering both Action Comics and Detective Comics* was to show how serious they were about the whole thing. It wasn't going to be a partial overhaul/reboot/retcon/whatever of the main DCU books, it was going to be complete.Originally Posted by Lothic
I could virtually guarantee that any kind of major motion picture version of JLA would be the "classic big 7" even if everyone loved the DCnU thing. The reason for this is as you said: overall character recognition. Sure your typical comicbook geek might be aware of DCnU but any movie marketed for a "general" audience would always fall back to the versions of the characters that are most widely known by every potential demographic who might go to see the movie.
I think the only way we'd see a big screen DCnU movie is if somehow that version of the comicbooks stayed around for another 10 or 20 years and probably only AFTER a "classic big 7" version had been made first.
So yeah, call me crazy, but I'd at least like to think WB/DC are going to stick to their guns about the DCnU versions and use them as the basis for a JLA movie. They have already started with Cyborg in the JLA: Doom movie.
*For those who don't know, Action and Detective had the longest runs of any North American comics at 904 and 881 respectively, before both were reset for the New 52 relaunch. Many fans were disappointed (to put it lightly) that the titles wouldn't hit their 1000th issues as previously believed. -
Zounds! Looks nifty.
Quote:DC has had a problems for years with the Wonder Woman comic, nevermind trying to get a TV show or movie going. There's no definitive comic book incarnation of the character to build a movie off of. (See also: Rider, Ghost)Originally Posted by Nericus
Well I remember before the nuDC reboot (which I hope gets reversed soon) that DC was hinting at copying Marvel's movie formula after the next Dark Knight movie is done. Supposedly the Batman movies get rebooted and DC will begin to interlock them with the next Superman movie and so on until it culminates into the Justice League.
Problem 1: creating a good Wonder Woman movie to help link to the JL concept. They've had problems for years trying to make a WW movie.
The Green Lantern movie has to be one of the worst examples of executive meddling in recent memory. From years ago when there was a rumor that Jack Black was going to be GL and they were going for a wacky approach, to trying to turn Hal Jordan into a smart*** like movie Tony Stark. 'Course I still think Jordan's a boring character anyway, but I digress.Quote:Originally Posted by Nericus
Problem 2: Green Lantern didn't seem all that well received, so will it be rebooted or will the risk a sequel to link it to JL?
It'll be interesting to see if WB/DC sticks to the DCnU incarnation of the JLA for the movie, or if they go back to the classic Big 7, give or take a Hawkgirl or Cyborg or whoever.Quote:Originally Posted by Nericus
Problem 3: Aquaman: considered by some fans to be a joke of a character (superfriends stigma lingers), yet he was done right on JL/JLU. Could Aquaman support his own movie to be linked to JL or be brought in during the JL movie? This same problem would apply to the Martian Manhunter and Hawkman or Hawkgirl.
Problem 4: they've had problems making a FLASH movie, the TV series back in the day was fun and I'm sure he could support his own movie. -
Speaking of official crossovers, I'd almost forgotten about the upcoming Groo vs Conan.
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The guy with the beard comes off as a jerk, but other than that, the show was passably rough around the edges. I'll give them a few more episodes to iron out a format.
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Quote:I get what you mean, but I was referring more to, imho, modern Cybermen looking and acting like sentai villains, and in a bad way. I understand what they're going for, a bunch of identical cyborgs moving in lockstep as a frightening idea. But to me it just looks damned silly on the show. I think the more zombie-ish aspect of the Borg, and the simpler costumes, are more effective for hordes of evil cyborgs.Originally Posted by Forbin_Project
What I was referring to is what designs the Doctor Who show could have come up with if the show had a comparable budget to Next Generation. Robbie the Robot showed us what could be done with a budget in 1956 which predates both Trek and Who.
As far as the Dalek origin and goals, they seem to have gotten twisted in the new series as far as being willing to "assimilate" human DNA for what they considered Dalek genetic material so they could rebuild the race.
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Quote:I still think the Borg are Cybermen done right.Originally Posted by KowaiKawaii
I'm curious if the Borg and Cybermen will team up.
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Quote:Granted I haven't looked into it much, but the only thing I've read about the threat for this movie is that it will not be Judge Death.Originally Posted by Nericus
... Not sure what the main villain/threat will be, but here's hoping a sequel has Judge Death if he isn't in this one, and a third movie have all the Dark Judges.
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Quote:So the story goes, it went something like this.Originally Posted by Lucky666
It looks good really good. Spider-Man might be my favorite super hero of all time and
Captain-Electric a few posts up said it extremely well.
The first two movies were good not great but good, then the third hit theatres and it was a travesty. I heard rumors that the director just didn't like Venom as a bad guy well good job casting Eric Foreman phhhh. ...
Raimi: We need a villain who's mostly a blank slate, so we can do what we want with him.
Random Suit: How about Sandman?
Raimi: Who?
Random Suit: He's a criminal made of sand that he can control. He's tried to reform a few times--
Raimi: --Perfect!
later...
Raimi: So we have this story using Sandman as the villain for Spider-Man 3.
Avi Arad: Sandman? The kids like Venom.
Raimi: But--
Arad: --Venom's popular. Put Venom in the movie.
Raimi: But we have all this story devoted to how Sandman--
Arad: So keep Sandman and put Venom in too!
Raimi: